Author and commentator Ben Shapiro told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that the results of the latest Fox News poll, which revealed that 63 percent of voters view the country’s founders as heroes, is “devastating.”The survey also found that 15 percent of voters view the country’s founders as villains, another 15 percent say it depends and 7 percent gave no opinion. The host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" noted that the fact that “only 63 percent of Americans describe the founders as heroes is devastating, that means that 37 percent of Americans do not describe the founders as heroes, they describe them as either villains or I don't know.”He then said that “if you look at the racial cross-tabs it's really devastating.”The survey revealed that White voters (71 percent) are more than twice as likely as Black voters (31 percent) to consider the founders to be heroes. “If you look at the Black community in the United States, according to this poll, a plurality of Black Americans believes that founders were villains rather than heroes, which is devastating to the future of the country,” he said. “We have to share history and believe that we are all part of the same great stream of American history, trying to justify those founding principles, falling short, but eventually succeeding.”“If we don't believe in those things, the country falls apart,” he continued. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFox News’ Dana Blanton contributed to this report.

Source: Fox News July 20, 2020 15:11 UTC